For some reason I kinda missed the whole mobile phone revolution, as if I'm quite honest the ability to phone people from anywhere doesn't appeal to me a great deal. I do like to keep in touch, I don't know where I'd be without Instant Messaging, but phone calls? I always just thought that I could do without phoning people on the move. Believe it or not, not every teenager in the country has or indeed wants a mobile phone! At times you just sit back and realise that the world has gone mad. You can't go to a restaurant, walk down the street or ride on a bus without someone shouting down their mobile, infact if evolution is much cop people will soon be born with a mobile phone glued to their ear! But anyway, this is a review of a phone and I'm saying I didn't want to buy one? Something doesn't make sense!

Of course I probably would have been better off plumping for the Nokia 3310 or 3330 which everyone in the world seems to have, but I resent paying £100 for something which I'm only going to use to send messages. And of course mobile phone prices have rocketed since the whole 3G license fiasco, so I resent paying money for something I could've got cheaper last year. So anyway, this one only cost £50 (from Argos) so I figured I may as well get it. The only reason I chose this one over all the others was that it had a built in radio, and I'm partial to Chris Moyles so having a radio built in to the phone means that I never have to miss his show!

First off, looks. Mines an off white colour with a silver back and silver buttons. It's of medium size, bigger than the Nokias but its curved stylings and light weight mean that it doesn't look like a brick. It fits in to your hand nicely, looks pretty decent, so on that front you can't really fault it. Cover wise you have a few options. I prefer it in it's natural white colour, but you can add either rubber wraps or clip on hard covers to it. Supplied with the phone are two rubber wraps in blue and pink, but a quick look at the Motorola website reveals a multitude of different coloured covers if you're willing to pay £6.99 for a bit of rubber. The thing is that the cover of the phone can't be removed, just covers fitted on front of it. This is OK with the rubber ones but the hard covers make the phone look a bit more clumsy. If anything the screen is a little small, considering the phone has WAP internet access you would've hoped for a bit more viewing space. It's taller than a normal phone display but rather narrow, still, it doesn't detract too much. It is backlit though, so you can use it in the dark should you so wish.

Firstly it doesn't even tell you the time, which is even more annoying because my watch just broke! Even more of a loss though is the alarm clock, which I found very useful on the odd occasions I borrowed my parents phone. Next up there's no games. Not a big deal as they are more of a novelty than a die hard necessity, but most phones do have games - so why not this one? Perhaps an even worse omission is the lack of customisable ring tones, coupled with the fact that there's only 12 built in and they're all bog standard and crap. While people with other phones get to have the latest pop tunes as their ring tone, I get the standard telephone ring. Last negative point for a while - the menus just don't seem right to me, the structure and organisation of them are a little bit weird, is it really too much to ask to be able to add numbers to the memory from a text message, rather than have to write down the number then adding it manually! Perhaps it's just me but I would've organised it differently. Oh and while I'm on it there's no predictive text messaging either, which is a little annoying too.

Apart from that it hasn't got a whole load of decent features, just the normal settings, memory and the like. Battery life is poor, even though it states a ludicrous amount of time (200+ hours I think) you'll be lucky to get anywhere near this out of them. You get a decent amount of kit with the phone, including hands free kit and charger, two covers, belt clips and more than enough bits of paper.

Registration with Orange was an easy affair, with a few forms on a website all that was needed to activate the phone and get £5 free credit. Similarly your WAP email can be set up online, as well as a few other options to do with various WAP related features. Would all be good, but WAP is so crap no one uses (and not to mention a rip off!). You can also choose which tariff you use, and when your off peak hours are (for example if you work in the evening you can set your off-peak hours to the daytime). I was a little peeved however, that standard off peak is from 7pm-7am, as opposed to 6pm-8am which is the BT standard. Not to worry!